Terry Pratchett Quotes

One thing I learned about people is that they love to give their opinions about things.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Gossip is conversation about people.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

Speech is what makes man a political being.

My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Talking payes no toll.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.